Steeltown Murders
Three murders - unsolved but never forgotten. Thirty years on, can DCI Bethall find the serial killer who terrorised 1970s Port Talbot?
- Metascore69
- 2023-2023
- 1 season
- Suspense, Drama, Documentary
- TV-MA
Three murders - unsolved but never forgotten. Thirty years on, can DCI Bethall find the serial killer who terrorised 1970s Port Talbot?
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Mon, Nov 27, 2023 57 mins
In an impoverished South Wales industrial town, DCI Paul Bethell eagerly volunteers, in 1973, to take charge of an investigation, allowed by the ambitious new chief to flaunt the possible benefits of DNA tests, to possibly link the neighboring CID's investigation into three fresh rapist-murders with a similar drama in his own town that has haunted both his community for almost 30 years. Hoping to finally piece together the trauma, DS Chris Wynne and DC Geraint Bale join his team, but he hoped-for ten men and budget aren't assigned, it's just them in a derelict storage room, and the CID chief won't even hear about Bethel's theory, merely cares to catch the present culprits fast. Only Bethel is convinced by the original laborer suspect's quasi-alibi, but can't stop his mates from dumping the poor man, after a rough 'suggestive questioning' on foot in the wasteland where victims were dumped after abuse, the new once are in another wood nearer town.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Mon, May 15, 2023 59 mins
DC Paul Bethell not only refuses to follow the chief's obsessive focus but warns the unfair suspect. His team also looks closely into motives and alibis of victim's overprotective stepfather Dai Williams and his temper, as well as into oddly behaved girl friends.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Mon, May 15, 2023 58 mins
Traditional research fails, but geneticists can use partial DNA data to give probabilities for family trees of potential suspects, eliminating must to create a shortlist. Crossing that with police records an consulting the retired officer of the eldest case results in 70% probability for the prime suspect, which can't be confirmed without exhumation.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Mon, May 15, 2023 58 mins
As Paul searches for higher approval to proceed with Kappen's exhumation, the team are concerned that his tunnel vision could leave them in a worse situation than they once were.
